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| Welcome to Miss Shay's Book Info page! | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Hi! I'm here to answer all your questions about those oddball books you can't find. Looking for a title, but not sure if it exists? Wanting to know who the real author is on a book you're pretty sure was written under a nom de plume? Where the heck is that Stephen King story your favorite movie is based on? Ask away! | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Maria Monk- Our Lady of the Iron Underwear | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Well, that story is in a book, but I'm pretty sure it's just that- a story. While there may have been abused nuns in the Middle Ages and beyond, Maria Monk was not one of them. However, a book under the title of Awful Disclosures of the Hotel Dieu Nunnery of Montreal (or of Maria Monk) was released in 1836, most probably by anti-Catholic propagandists. I could go into the many shady things about Miss Monk and how her story has been discredited, but Ruth Hughes does a much better job, and I hate to be the spreader of posthumous gossip. Honest. No really, I do. Well... okay, I'll give you a quick run-down- a half-addled runaway who spent most of her time in a mental institution and never seems to have been in a nunnery. But anything else you'll have to go to Ms. Hughes' page to find out. |
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| Someone told me about this nun who was sexually abused by Catholic priests and it was all about torture and stuff. I thought they said it was all in a book. | |||||||||||||||||||||||